Sharp County record., 1887-03-24

find, a heart to speak to- We
arc the weakest of spendthrifts
if we let a friend drop off
through inattentiop, or let one
push away another, or if we hold
aloof because of one petty jeal-
ously, or needless slight, or
roughnees. Would you throw
away a diamond because it
pricked you? One good friend
is not to be weighed against the
jewels'of the arth.-Christian
at Work.
We must either conquer sin
or be conquered and destroyed
by it. 1t is "war to the death. "
"Use SIM" said Richard Baxter,
"as it will use you-spare it
not, for it will not spare you; it
is your murderer, and the mur-
derer of the world; kill it or it
will kill you"
He that is Indifferent to the
welfare Of others will have but
few claims of charity obtruded
upon his notice; but no truly
charitable spirit need ever be
at a loss, in such a world as this
for occasions to do good, and we
may Se sure of our unfaithful-
ness if we are ignorant of them,
A bill has been introduced in
congress providing for pension
of 1926 a month for the poet Walt
Whitman. While we would be
glad to see the poet made COM
Portable in his declining years,
and relieved of the suffering
which poverty causes, we are
forced to agree with the Chicago
News that the bill is not a wise
measure, Its passage would es-
tablish dangerous precedent,
and encourage the growth of
poets. The country is already
prospipg under the weight of its
poets, They infest all the pro-
fessions, the haberdasher shops
and the bar rooms, in fact they
are as thick as jamestown weeds
in a deserted cowpen, and spread
faster than the measles.-Ex
Let the man who is too poor
to take his home paper, but pays
for city paper, ask himself the
question; Do the eastern papers
ever give any home news? No!
Do they contain notices of your
churches, schools, improvements
and a hundred other matters Of
local interest, which your home
paper furnishes you without a
cents pay? Not an item? Do
they ever say word calculated
to draw attention to your county
and aid your progress and the
enterprise of your community?
Not a word! And there are
men who have such contracted
views that they think unless the
home paper gives them as many
square inches as the city paper,
they are not getting the worth
of their money. They are like
the fellow who took the largest
pair of boots in the box-because
be got more leather for the same
money; not considering fit or
quality of goods"
Frying, as the operation is
usually done in this country
saws q noted NJ. D., constitutes
the basis of American simplicity
in the culinary art, and all ply
sicians are agreed that probably
no other single factor is so prom
inent in the production of our
national disease, dyspepsia, as
this. | do not desire to be un-
derstood as condemning frying
or any of the notifications OF
this process of cooking, when
properly done. On the contrary
/ think it is an excellent method
of preparing meats, fish and
many vegetables for the table.
But how rarely is the American
frying pan anything else than a
utensil for slowly stewing an ar
tiole in grease. Saturated and
permeated with fat, the fried
article of food becomes an indi-
gestible mass, incapable OF
acting as an ailment'
The insane asylum is over
crowded with patients, contain
ing five in excess of it's accom-
modations.
A gold mine, near Batesville
Independence county, is being
worked by Little Rock capital
lists with favorable results.